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An edition of Reading in the dark (1996)

Reading in the dark

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Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.

The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality.

Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it." Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Language
English
Pages
232

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Chtenie v temnote: roman
2001, Inostranka, B.S.G.-Press
in Russian
Cover of: Reading in the Dark
Reading in the Dark: A Novel
February 24, 1998, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Reading in the dark
Reading in the dark
1997, Vintage, Trafalgar Square
in English
Cover of: Reading in the dark
Reading in the dark
1997, Knopf
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Reading in the dark
Reading in the dark
1996, Jonathan Cape
in English

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Published in
London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6054.E22 R43 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
232 p. ;
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL14992930M
Internet Archive
readingindark00dean_0
ISBN 10
0224044052
OCLC/WorldCat
35851435
Library Thing
50230
Goodreads
1928819

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